Microsoft India And NASSCOM Foundation Partner With UNDP & Govt. Of Delhi To Launch Youth spark Code Career
PRESS RELEASE Furthering its commitment to empower and enable girls through technology and build greater diversity and gender equality in the IT-BPM sector, Microsoft India has launched Youth Spark Code <A> Career program in two Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in Delhi. This program will be conducted in partnership with NASSCOM Foundation, United Nations Development Program […]
NITI Aayog Partners with Piramal Foundation to ‘Transform Aspirational Districts’ Across India
PRESS RELEASE Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision for a holistic approach to balanced development across the country, through effective implementation of government schemes in the Aspirational Districts, is expected to lead to an overall improvement in the Human Development Index. For this, it is imperative that all section of society come together and development […]
AB InBev collaborates with farmers to improve barley productivity through ‘Barley Growers Day’
PRESS RELEASE Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) – the leading global brewer reinforced its commitment towards India and it’s farmers by successfully organizing the third edition of ‘Budweiser Barley Growers Day’ in Farukh Nagar, Haryana on March 24. AB In Bev collaborated with farmers to improve barley productivity in the country and introduced new varieties of […]
Safe Water Network And Honeywell India Launch 100th iJal Safe Water Station
PRESS RELEASE Safe Water Network (SWN) and Honeywell India today launched their 100th iJal safe water station, providing safe water access to ~330,000 people in Telangana districts affected by severe groundwater contamination, including from fluorides. These locallyowned and locally-operated safe water stations deploy state-of-the-art six-level filtration technology, including reverse osmosis and ultraviolet filtration to purify […]
SHARED WEALTH OF HUMANKIND
WORLD HERITAGE Ancient monuments and buildings in the countries, make them stand tall on world map. They are an asset to value for! and that’s why, World Heritage Day is a collective effort of the communities in the world to do the needful for these invaluable assets. The World Heritage Day takes an opportunity to […]
MGL HUNAR AN INITIATIVE FOR KAUSHAL BHARAT
INITIATIVE Project MGL Hunar draws inspiration from age old proverb “Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, teach him to catch instead, and you have fed him for his entire lifetime.” Project MGL Hunar is designed as an enabling initiative which seeks to bridge the gap between the dearth’s […]
WADIA GROUP CELEBRATE C N WADIA GOLD CUP 2018
EVENT To Honour Sir Cusrow Wadia; The Wadia Group on March 11 hosted C N Wadia Gold Cup 2018 at Mahalakshmi Race course, Mumbai. Dr Minnie Bodhanwala, CEO Wadia Hospitals; Actor and Social Entrepreneur, Kunal Kapoor; and Senior Officials from The Wadia Group were present during the occasion. More than 50 children who fought deadly […]
GENDER EQUALITY – A KEY DIFFERENTIATOR ANKITA KUMARI, VARUNA SINGH
EVENT Gender Inequality has a longstanding history of being entrenched in various aspects of the Indian society, excluding women not being contoured in dominant economic, social and political narratives.Recognizing the criticality of Gender Equality, United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 is centred on women emerging as equally invested stakeholders in our development paradigm.The UN believes […]
SERVING NATION
INITIATIVE IMMANUEL CYRUS takes look at the current state of the civil services and the challenges that lie ahead The civil services of any country are the backbone of governmental administration. Especially in a densely populated country like ours the Civil Services have played a key role in keeping the country together over the last […]
COUNTERING MENACE OF PLASTIC
NEWS Millions of people took to the streets on 22nd April, 1970, in the US, to protest the negative impacts of 150 years of industrial development. Smog was becoming deadly and evidence was growing that pollution led to developmental delays in children. Biodiversity was in decline as a result of the heavy use of pesticides […]